Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

THE ABORIGINAL GUIDE IS GROWING THE NETWORK OF INDIGENOUS-OWNED AND -LED VISITOR EXPERIENCES IN FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND

How is climate change – and consequently evolving farming practices – affecting hunting? Andrew Sallis finds out

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

Nature’s spiky deterrents–thorns, spines and prickles–may be quick to catch us out, but they can also prove to be a useful ally, discovers Laura Parker

When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals